Internationalization and Informationalization

Naohiko Kumagai Vice Chairman, Keidanren Chairman, Mitsuii & Co., Ltd.

The business environment has been becoming increasingly severカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法n recent years, and change has become a permanent state. At the root of such change, we can point to internationalization and informationalization as two main currents. Intermingled, they have a great impact on corporate management.

Thカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法nternationalization now going on is different from that in previous times, which affected business activities and personnel matters. Now, it is invading such domains as the manner of corporate governance, such as shareholders' meetings and boards of directors, and pressing for a review of the Japanese-style management system, as seen in lifetime employment and a wages system based on seniority. We arカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法n a situation where, with global standards as the keyword, internationalization from within is required. After the termination of the Cold War, while the market economy is being propagated throughout the world and economic activities are becoming literally borderless, it is a natural turn of events that the management system should be renovated with the world market in mind.

Through recent progress in information technologies, restrictions of time and distance have been vastly reduced, making thカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法nternational activities of enterprises easier, with the result that the speed of information transfer has grown by leaps and bounds, advancing the sharing of information and urging the management system, including reports, orders, and decision-making, to be still more efficient. Furthermore, through thカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法ntegration of information networks, seen in EDI and electronic commerce, the market structurカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法s going to experience cataclysmic change on an international scale.

In counteracting such metamorphosis in the surroundings, it is central to penetrate the essence of the change and remake the management system into the most efficient one possible. With regard to informationalization, one has thカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法mpression that discussions center on perfection of informational infrastructure. Its reinforcement, as seen in the general use of personal computers, certainly is a prerequisite, but while the volume of information is increasing rapidly, inundating the planet, how to select valuablカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法nformation precisely and make the most of it becomes morカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法mportant than ever. Informational infrastructurカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法s, after all, a means to an end, and to usカジノ シークレット 出 金 方法t to the best advantage of management and business activities depends finally on how the sensitivity of each person to information and his or her ability to turn it to account is elevated.